linear, line-like, “very narrow and elongate, with nearly parallel sides, narrower than ligulate (Magill 1990) of the twelfth part of an inch; ‘measuring about a line:” linealis,-e (adj.B), linearis,-e (adj.B).

radiatiformis,-e (adj.B): having outer florets of the capitulum larger than those of the disc but not ligulate (Stearn).

NOTE: in Compositae (Bentham & Hooker): capitula ligulata dicuntur si homogama corollis omnibus ligulatis, the capitula are said to be ligulate if homogamous with all of the corollae ligulate; see capitulum,-i (s.n.II).